Jessie Evans Smith


Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr. was an American religious leader and writer who served as the tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1970 until his death in 1972. He was the son of Joseph F. Smith, who was the sixth president of the LDS Church, and grandson of Hyrum Smith, brother of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith.

Smith was born in Salt Lake City on July 18, 1876, as the first son of Julina Lambson Smith, the second wife and first plural wife of Joseph F. Smith, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. By agreement between his parents, Smith was given his fathers name, even though Joseph F. Smiths third and fourth wives had previously had sons. Growing up, Smith lived in his fathers large family home at 333 West 100 North in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. The house was opposite the original campus of the University of Deseret , on a site now occupied by the LDS Business College. He also often worked on the family farm in Taylorsville, Utah, as a child.

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